Polish astronomer who revolutionized science by claiming that the sun, and not earth, was the center of the universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus
What the acronym “smh” stands for.
Shake My Head
This region runs North to South from British Columbia to Northern California. It is where you find Mts. Rainier, St. Helens, and other dormant volcanoes.
Cascade Range
Place where native children were sent to force them to be assimilated into white culture.
Indian Boarding School
The volcano that erupted on May 18, 1980.
Mount St. Helen
This disease carried by rats killed 1/3 of the population of Europe in the mid 1300s.
Black Death, The Plague, Bubonic Plague
While European conquistadors did have superior weapons, most Native Americans died from what disease?
Smallpox, chicken pox, diphtheria, typhus, influenza, measles, malaria and yellow fever.
The native Shoshone woman who helped Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explore the Oregon territory and reach the Pacific Ocean.
Sacagawea
Something that can be broken but is never held.
A promise
Name two jobs most people did in Washington State in the early 1900s.
Farming, logging, fishing, mining.
Name two minerals that were sought after, traded, and brought immense amount of wealth to African Kingdoms.
Salt and Gold
Name of the native people who were enslaved and killed by Christopher Columbus when he landed on their lands.
Taino
The arrival of these animals greatly helped Northwest natives travel, hunt, and trade.
Horses
The Act that divided native reservations into small plots that were then assigned to native families.
Dawes Act or Allotment Act of 1887
Two names given to the man who hijacked a plane and jumped out on a parachute.
DB Cooper, Dan Cooper, Robert Rackstraw
Believers in this religion are called Muslims.
Islam
The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 divided the world between these two European countries.
Spain and Portugal
Sing "Happy Birthday" to someone in your group who has a birthday in July or August.
400 points
This native chief led his band of Nez Perce in running away from the U.S. Army and almost made it to Canada.
Chief Joseph
Native nation who successfully manages a casino, race track, amphitheater, and own land in South King County.
Muckleshoot
This king of Mali was known as the richest man in history.
Mansa Musa
A product that was grown or processed in the Americas and sent to Europe as part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Sugar, rum, tobacco.
European traders offered native nations this goods made from this metal in exchange for animal skins.
Iron
This Chief was wrongfully executed by the U.S. because his Nisqually tribe was technically at war with the government.
Chief Leschi
Name two things that natives usually received after signing treaties with the U.S.
Money, reservation land, hunt/fish in usual places, education, medicine.